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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154587703321

Autore

Levi Michael

Titolo

The phantom capitalists : the organization and control of long-firm fraud / / Michael Levi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-88432-8

1-315-23786-5

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

364.16/30941

Soggetti

Commercial crimes - Great Britain

Fraud - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1981 by Heinemann. Published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

I. Introduction -- II. History of long-firm fraud in England -- III. Craft of the long-firm fraudster -- IV. Social and criminal organisation of long-firm fraud -- V. Motivations and criminal careers of long-frim fraudsters -- IV. Informal control of long-firm fraud -- VII. Long-firm fraud and the criminal law -- VIII. Policing of long-firm fraud -- IX. Prosecution and trial of long-firm fraudsters -- X. Sentencing of long-firm fraudsters -- XI. Towards a theory of long-firm fraud -- XII. Control of long-firm fraud : some issues for the future.